Ramblings: Social Media Lives

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Can I let you in on a secret? I have a love/hate relationship with social media. I love the easy access to keeping up with the daily lives of friends and family far away. I love discovering new things and making new blog/twitter/instagram friends. It builds a great sense of community, and there are people that can relate and I can pick their brains about topics of my interests. These are the things I love, and these are the reasons why I probably won’t give it up.

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I don’t have a personal facebook. My dog has one. I use his account to play games. And post pictures of him. I share lots of my life on instagram (things I want to share, not everything) and I have random commentary on twitter. But I don’t live on social media. I hang out with my friends, eat food, talk, cook, read etc. What I noticed with our society lately is people LIVING on social media… and a lot of the times they live fake lives.

There are different types of people. People who use social media for branding, people who use it for an online interests community (like I mentioned before), people who use social media to share only with people that care about them and vice versa (usually have everything on private), people who use social media to garner attention to feed their narcissistic behavior, and people who use social media to prove to other people that they are living fabulous lives when really they are trying to make themselves feel better about their own life. I read about this somewhere, I believe it’s called “Fakebooking”.

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I think this is the hate reason in my love/hate relationship. I’ve decided to cut out quite a few excess people in my life, due to their need to always one up everyone. I feel like this is fueled by such easy access to anyone’s lives via instagram/twitter/facebook. You start comparing yourself, and your life to someone else and it turns you into a monster!

That being said, I’m not going to give up on twitter or instagram. Who know’s I will probably get facebook sometime down the line to share pictures of my kids or something…but somehow I still feel like I won’t. I want to send more handwritten cards/letters/notes this year. Old school. Use up my stamps and paper supplies. Our life is so digital that sometimes I miss tangible things. I want to organize my things and be paper free and declutter. But I still love being in the real world as opposed to the digital world.

What about you? Are you living in the real world? And no, not the MTV show.

 

0 thoughts on “Ramblings: Social Media Lives

  1. I totally know how you feel. Some days, I just want to throw away every single piece of electronic equipment I own. It’s hard to be so plugged in sometimes. And I definitely have FOMO when I’m not. But… I don’t have a Facebook account either. I used to and now I don’t. And you know what, I still have good friends, even if I don’t know what they ate for breakfast. 🙂

    Shoot me an email and we’ll plan Kazaxe!

  2. There’s no ‘like’ button here and i have to type it all out. I definitely feel the same way. I have fb to show pics of my toddler apart from that nada. I’m old school to and ok with that;)

    1. I was thinking, that I would get facebook to share pictures of my future baby. But I kind of don’t want to do that either. I think I will just email my family that I am close to!

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